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Aug 3
Snakes on a Fledgling Writer
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Last night I was reading Chuck Klosterman's hoity-toity Esquire article, The 'Snakes on a Plane' Problem. The essay begins with an excellent meditation on populism, but concludes that this upcoming B-movie's interaction between artist and audience will ruin movies.

As you will see next week in my interview with Christa Faust, the hardboiled lady who wrote the Snakes on a Plane novelization, writers can't think like that anymore!

Fledgling writers need to drop that idea of one-way, author-in-a-vacuum Art: you need to find your reading community and interact with them for the rest of your career. Snakes on a Blog summarizes the discussion, and Jackie Hubba over at Church of the Customer Blog says it best:

"SoaP has captured the attention and imagination of so many people because it demonstrates that for some big projects with multiple levels of collaboration, listening to and giving a voice to the early adopters, the One Percenters who know their stuff, strengthens ownership levels, builds buzz and reduces inherent risk. That's the story, and the model."

Personally,
I'm hoping the movie will be one of those cheesy pictures that skinny boys with glasses love to immortalize--a Rocky Horror Picture Show for my kids to watch 20 years from now. The good folks at Snakeplay are already doing that job.

What do you think?

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